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El abogado Richard Scruggs, conocido por ganar millonarios juicios a las compañías de tabaco y otras corporacociones, ha sido descubierto in fraganti en un penoso episodio de corrupción.

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El Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos dictó sentencia en los procesos Riegel v. Medtronic Inc., Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transp. Assn. y Preston v. Ferrer. En todos estos casos invalidó disposiciones de leyes estatales.Pueden ver la entrevista en video realizada por The Wall Street JournalHigh Court Overrules 3 State Laws Justices Back CongressAs Dominant RegulatorOf Interstate Commerce By

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Bush Presses House to Approve Bill on Surveillance By ERIC LICHTBLAUWASHINGTON — President Bush strongly urged the House of Representatives on Wednesday to quickly approve a surveillance bill passed by the Senate Tuesday evening, saying he would not agree to a further extension of the current eavesdropping law.The president effectively gave the House a deadline to act, since the current authority

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McCain and the Supreme CourtBy STEVEN G. CALABRESI and JOHN O. MCGINNISFebruary 4, 2008; Page A14The conservative movement has made enormous gains over the past three decades in restoring constitutional government. The Roberts Supreme Court shows every sign of building on these gains.Yet the gulf between Democratic and Republican approaches to constitutional law and the role of the federal courts

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El New York Times ha creado una página muy didáctica con la biografía y principales decisiones de los miembros más reciente del Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos, Alito y Roberts.

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Justices Broaden Immunity for Officers By LINDA GREENHOUSEWASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officers are immune from lawsuits for mishandling, losing or even stealing personal property that comes under their control in the course of their official duties, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a 5-to-4 decision.The case was brought by a federal prison inmate, but the ruling was not limited to

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Mukasey Shows Independent StreakBig Test Awaits Attorney General When He Testifies Before Senate PanelBy EVAN PEREZJanuary 23, 2008; Page A4WASHINGTON -- Arriving at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's holiday party last month, Attorney General Michael Mukasey went directly to the registration table for surnames starting with M. Staff members gently advised him there was no need to register. He

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Justices Rebuff Enron HoldersBy JESS BRAVIN and MARK H. ANDERSONJanuary 23, 2008; Page A2WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court turned away an appeal from Enron shareholders seeking to recover losses from Wall Street banks, underscoring the sweep of last week's decision limiting the liability of companies that help other corporations commit fraud.The decision effectively ends the $40 billion Enron

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Judges Tackle 'Foreclosure Mills'High-Volume FirmsThat Cut CornersAre Rebuked, FinedBy AMIR EFRATINovember 30, 2007; Page B6Law firms handling thousands of foreclosure cases on behalf of mortgage lenders and servicers are drawing criticism from judges, who say roughshod filing practices are trampling borrowers' rights.Lawyers operating so-called foreclosure mills often are paid based on the

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High Court Hears 401(k) CaseBy MARK H. ANDERSONNovember 27, 2007; Page A6WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices hearing a case of alleged retirement fund mismanagement seemed uncomfortable with barring employees from suing over certain losses to an individual's retirement account.The high court considered arguments in a case brought by a South Carolina man who alleged his employer, DeWolff, Boberg

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Tycoon Sent to JailIn Oil-for-Food CaseBy CHAD BRAYNovember 29, 2007; Page B10Texas oil trader Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. was sentenced to more than a year in prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge and admitting he approved the payment of a $200,000 surcharge to the Iraqi government in violation of the United Nations' oil-for-food program.At a hearing in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Denny

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Jury Rules For JDSU In Rare Securities Class Action TrialPosted by Peter Lattman As we told you last month, a securities-fraud class-action lawsuit that goes to trial is as rare as a pygmy marmoset. There have been 19 securities class action trials since 1996. One that goes to a jury verdict are even rarer — as rare as, say, a Cambodian Forest Ox (pictured). Only four securities class-action

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Argument Recap: LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Assoc. (by Workplace Prof Blog) Posted: 26 Nov 2007 04:50 PM CSTNote: The following argument recap is by Paul Secunda of the University of Mississippi School of Law and Workplace Prof Blog, where this entry is cross-posted. The SCOTUSwiki page for this case, with more links and documents, is here.As Rick pointed out this past weekend, the

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US government revising plan for penalizing businesses that hire illegal immigrants(AP) - WASHINGTON-The government says it will rewrite rules for penalizing employers of illegal immigrants to try to satisfy a federal judge in San Francisco who put the crackdown on hold.U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer stopped the Bush administration last month from going ahead with enforcement of regulations

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The Week AheadSunday, November 25th, 2007 6:25 pm Ben Winograd Comments (0) Print This PostEmail this • Share on Facebook • Digg This!On Monday, the Court is scheduled to hear argument in Larue v. DeWolff (06-856), asking whether ERISA provides private causes of action for plan participants alleging fiduciary breaches. In advance of the argument, the Court is expected to release remaining orders

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Guns and the Constitution November 24, 2007; Page A10In recent decades, the Supreme Court has discovered any number of new rights not in the explicit text of the Constitution. Now it has the opportunity to validate a right that resides in plain sight -- "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" in the Second Amendment.This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of District of

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The Most Mysterious RightCass R. Sunstein, The New Republic Published: Monday, November 12, 2007Out of RangeBy Mark V. Tushnet(Oxford University Press, 156 pp., $19.95)In 1991, Warren E. Burger, the conservative chief justice of the Supreme Court, was interviewed on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour about the meaning of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms." Burger answered that the

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